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    Key points

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    Developments in genetic science have huge implications for NHS services.

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    Taking aim: the PHGU

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    To keep abreast of developments in molecular and clinical genetics, and their ethical, legal, social and public health implications.

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    REFERENCES

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    1 Genetics Research Advisory Group. A First Report to the NHS Central Research and Development Committee on the New Genetics. Department of Health, 1995.

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    Playing the joker

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    books

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    Up close and personal

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    Interpersonal skills for nurses and health care professionals

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    Working on a needs to know basis

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    Health needs assessment in practice

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    in person

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    David Hands, acting chief executive of Bro Taf health authority, has been appointed chief executive of North Wales HA. He will succeed Brian Jones when he retires later this year.

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    Events

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    Items are entered free for public sector, voluntary and professional organisations, but we need at least six weeks' notice of your event. Please send details to Uli Jaeger, HSJ, Greater London House, Hampstead Road, London, NW1 7EJ. Fax: 0171-874 0254. E-mail:ulij@healthcare.emap.co.uk

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    monitor

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    Monitor has been much struck of late by Joe McCrae's charming new persona. Whisper who dares, but sources (as we journos put it) suggest that Dobbo's formidable enforcer may have gone just a little bit native down in Whitehall. Perhaps he has been reading his job description. It is a ...

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    Baroness braves the demands of opposition

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    westminster diary

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    'Astonished' MP pushes for cancer register

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    The government would regularly review NHS cancer care, and publish performance statistics for cancer centres - including survival rates - under a bill proposed by Labour backbencher Paul Marsden.

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    in brief

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    The public sector ombudsman system is to be reviewed to examine the scope for a more 'joined-up' approach to dealing with complaints from the public, said Cabinet Office minister Jack Cunningham. It will consider whether current arrangements in England 'are in the best interests of complainants' and whether the service ...

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    'Smart card' security bid

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    Ten hospitals are piloting a 'smart card' that would allow NHS employers to check the complete occupational health history and any police record of potential employees.

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    Residential homes to get regulatory body

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    The Welsh Office has announced the launch of a regulatory body for nursing and residential homes in a white paper on the future of social services.

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    Days like this

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    Clarke denies pre-empting legislation... Doctors dismiss extra consultant posts as 'sop'... White paper critics 'risk worse'...

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    Open wounds

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    news focus

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    Closure plans: why are we waiting?

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    1991 Consultation on the original plans for two units to replace High Royds and Roundhay wing.

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    Word on the wards: 'abysmal' and 'not acceptable'

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    John Oldham on 140-bed Roundhay wing: 'The conditions there are, in my view, abysmal.'

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    Send in the clowns

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    news focus